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Oh, yeah, and it requires a CD in the drive.

D3 NOCD Version 1.4

You were saying?

PC PATCHES ... D3 NOCD Version 1.4 (in case you haven't gotten it, emphasis on PC )

You were saying...?

No need to be snarky about it, especially when you don't look at the details. Shadowfury mentioned ...

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As for me, the reason I don't play Descent 3 is that it doesn't run natively in Mac OS X, so I have to launch the Classic Mac OS 9 emulation environment in Mac OS X in order to run Descent 3. Intel-Mac users are left totally out of the D3 party, because Classic emulation doesn't run whatsoever on ...

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Oh. Man. Wow, Dizzy, you seriously can churn out these textures! Nice work!

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Oooooooh, pretty! Only comment is that I think the smart missile needs to be a bit smaller. Right now it's on par in size with the mega/earthshakers, when it shouldn't be, I don't think.

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Dizzy: those look really, really good! Surprisingly, I don't think I actually have any complaints about them!

Awesome work!

I can't wait for the hi-res smart missile and the 4-packs!

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Hm. I don't think they have to look 100% like the original, as long as they look good, which they do. :)

I dunno, I prefer them to be as faithful to the original as possible.

Dizzy: the latest ones look good. I would agree that the homer and guided's middle diameter needs to be thickened a tad ...

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Yeah, I'm not digging the exhaust blades so much. I think basic black would still do very nicely.

The newer missiles are better, but still a few things, at least IMHO -- feel free to ignore them:

-- in the second conc image (first of homer), you have a conc facing towards you, and it has too much ...

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We've usually had Xsense routers in our house, and from what I can remember, they didn't cause any problems with regards to netplay. (Now we don't use Xsense routers since our AirPort wireless Base Station handles everything.)

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simX: I think those gray stripes are intentional... after all, the gray versus blue is how I always differentiated between homers and concs. Maybe in the original they're just artifacts of the rendering process, but I kind of like them being obvious.

No, the gray stripes are shadows. The ...

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Here's my first weapon ,Ive been working on, Im no modeler, but its a start, nose and swing need some help, but as Aus put it ,its a W.I.P.

Awesome, Dizzy! Doesn't look like a crayon. ;)

3 suggestions: first, the bottom of the missile would look better black, IMHO, like the original. Second, the ...

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Uh-oh, simX, I really appreciate your support, but I do not at all think like that. I simply consider that forum my work place, and I am trying to keep it in good condition. That's a responsibility I see on my behalf, and I will act accordingly. And that is why I close bug reports not posted in the ...

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Right now, the rules in that forum simply don't make sense.

To you. But for a person who has to manage a project, requiring all bugs to be centralized into one thread is perfectly reasonable. That way, Diedel does not have to sift through all the other posts to find a bug report that he is ...

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Not to mention the more fundamental flaw to your argument - to whit, I don't think Diedel himself even makes the claim that it's his "house."

Kyouryuu: I don't really care whether or not Diedel thinks it's his house or not. That is irrelevant to my argument. As I said, my words are my own.

You ...

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[FULL DISCLOSURE: I am the Mac developer of D2X-XL. I work with Diedel on fixing some of the problems that exist on the Mac side of things. I communicate with him on a regular basis. Regardless of this and my relationship to him, the following are entirely my own words.]

To Kyouryuu, Krom, Ferno ...

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Aus-RED-5 wrote:I know it looks crap.
This is why I said it is a W.I.P (WORK IN PROGRESS).

Just because it's a WIP doesn't mean I still can't call it crap.

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Yes, PC users have successfully joined my games. The 2 built-in trackers will suffice (and they are automatically enabled), since everybody who has D2X-XL will also automatically use these trackers.

As I said before, though, this never precluded you from playing netgames since version 1.6.130. It ...

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Aus-RED-5 wrote: Using Descent 3 models.
I ripped this into D2X-XL.

Meh, I don't like the look of that one. It looks like a crayon, with its bright blue color. I think a realistic redo of the Descent 2 homing missile would look better.

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Yay, now if only there were netgames to be played, unless there have been since I last checked.

I mentioned this in a few other threads, but it's worth mentioning again. There've been consistent games for the past week and a half occurring from 8 PM to 1 AM PST, if you're able to join during that ...

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Just a post to let all the Mac users out there know -- version 1.6.151 now allows you to host netgames. Versions 1.6.130 to 1.6.150 only allowed you to join them. Diedel found the bug that was causing things to get messed up.

So.. in other words.. yay!

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I'm trying to think of ways to publicize D2X-XL....cause I'm so bored of being the only one avaliable to multiplay at one time :P

Ideas:
1) Slashdot
2) Digg
3) Popular blog advertisements
4) IGN, Gamespy, ect.

I already tried Slashdot one time, but my article was not posted (suprisenly *sarcasm ...

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Sorry to report this but I think I have another bug...

The game seems to crash when I exit Level 4 in D2. Can you reproduce this, simX?

I'll try to use a fresh copy to see if a reinstall works.

EDIT: Sorry, this it's Level 5, not 4. Furthermore, there's this odd thing where I can't seem to ...

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d3jake wrote:Oh.... okay.

Haha. You sound... dissappointed.

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Maybe simX can do a little debugging and find out where D2X-XL is looking for custom menu backgrounds on a Mac.

Just did so. Menu backgrounds work for me. Note that you should probably add a "-altbg_name menubg.tga" line to your d2x.ini file (now that it's working :) ), and you should also make ...

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Diedel wrote:Feel free to fix this, now that you are a gdb expert.

Gah.

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Oh, and while I'm at it, here's another bug: demos created while playing multiplayer games do not show opposing ships, powerups, or weapons in the demo. You can see yourself flying around the level, and you can hear the shots of other ships and you can hear yourself and other ships pick up powerups ...

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Actually, I've been storing mine in ./Data/Textures as well, and that works.

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Diedel: We should find some time to look into some of the networking problems we've been having in D2X-XL. Probably this weekend would be best, since during the week we are each at work when the other is free.

We tried playing a game of entropy today and it was a complete mess. Not sure what the ...

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Smoke problem in single or multiplayer?

Multiplayer.

EDIT: It seems to happen when you fire a missile. When you fire one, and then move off, the smoke puffs from where you were when you shot the missile are still there. Then when you fire a new missile from the new position, the persistent smoke ...

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... but I guess simX needs some well deserved sleep now ...

Ugh, yes. Even I can't handle going to bed at 4 AM many nights in a row. :) The URL for the new .dmg for 1.6.134 has been sent to Diedel, so the ball is in his court now. Put it up! :)

I've tested the save game code on my PPC Mac, and ...

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OK. Still some save game problems with the new format in 1.6.132, but older save game files do work (after a warning message). Makin' progress. 1.5.147, which was widely reported to be very stable, can be downloaded from the Downloads area of descent2.de .

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I'll poke around in the code and see what I can find out about the save games problem. In the meantime, there are a bunch of things about netplay that need to get ironed out, chief of which seems to be hosting doesn't work on the Mac, autodownloading of course, and then a bunch of multiplayer issues ...

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rampancy: OK, I can reproduce your problem -- the textures get messed up on saved games that were produced from the same build. Gah.

Peter: Yeah, I've experienced that a few times too. It doesn't happen all the time, though -- just restart the prog and it shouldn't do it the next time. I'll see if ...

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Oh, hrm. I will test this problem out and report back.

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Diedel: I have noticed that the latest build still has that problem with the water animation. Only a frame (I think) ever is displayed in high-res. Any progress on fixing that?

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Anyway, I've been using the 1.6.130 build and whenever I try to load a saved game in Descent 2 I get the black transparent walls bug mentioned here earlier. Is there something I could change in the .ini file or in the Rendering Options to somehow fix this?

If I remember correctly, this is caused ...

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Everybody who's anybody needs to see this thread regarding D2X-XL on Mac OS X. (Re: network play)

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Once upon a time there was an endian issue, an alignment issue, and two people determined to get Mac OS X network play to work, who were all duking it out. Guess which one won? :D :) :D :o

Get it while it's hot -- version 1.6.130 . Mac OS X network play, now being served.

P.S. Quick note: auto ...

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Did you test Glass House with my switch config on your computer?

Yes, and it works fine. However, given that we have different graphics cards (I have a Radeon X600 XT with 128 MB of VRAM), it's possible that you need to turn on/off additional switches. Like I said, I'm not too knowledgeable about ...

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Hrm. Can you try a pristine player profile?

Still doesn't work, although I have all of my switches still on, except for the -player SF333 one. However, I was able to indentify the sound as the startup sound, but the beginning bit is looping about 20 times per second.

One of the switches might ...

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However, I tried Glass house, and now when it starts up I hear a sound like my ship rubbing against the wall, but the sound is repeated about 20 times per second. Also, there's no picture. Speed does the same thung*, without sound, though.

Hrm. Can you try a pristine player profile?

On a ...

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